Oxford Business Law Blog | Oxford Law Blogs

Faculty of law blogs / UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Posted between

Items per page

Sort by

Addressing the Auditor Independence Puzzle: Regulatory Models and Proposal for Reform

Auditors play a major role in corporate governance and capital markets. Ex ante, auditors facilitate firms’ access to finance by creating trust from public investors. Ex post, auditors can prevent...

27 November 2019

by

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

Conflicts of Interest: Can They Be Regulated, and Does Disclosure Minimize Them?

Conflicts of interest (‘COI’) are all the rage in the regulatory efforts to curb and structure unwanted financial advisory services. And while all professions engaged in giving advice for...

by

Morten Kinander

Exercise of Shareholder Control Over a State Owned Enterprise - Comments on Comissão de Valores Mobiliários’s decision in the Eletrobras case

The Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), the Brazilian equivalent of the SEC, has recently imposed sanctions on the Federal Government for actions taken as the controlling shareholder of the...

by

Mario Engler Pinto Junior

Removing Commissions Does not Restore Impartial Advice

Experts often face a dilemma when clients ask for advice on risky decisions. For example, your financial adviser might be tempted to sell you a risky investment on which he...

by

Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen

The Real Lesson From Brexit

A Pro-Market blog post examines the lessons we learnt from Brexit. This post is a cross-post from the Promarket blog, the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago...

by

A Critical Analysis of the Recent Russian Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies

In my paper (available here), I discuss the newly approved regulation regarding Credit Rating Agencies (“CRAs”) in Russia and examine, using a comparative analysis, whether the introduced rules match...

by

ICYMI – The FCA Publishes Interim Report of its Investment and Corporate Banking Market Study and Review of the IPO Process

Last week, the UK Financial Conduct Authority published an interim report as part of its Market Study into Investment and Corporate Banking, alongside two further documents focused on...

by

With the support of